{"product_id":"pretty-a-memoir-9780593537145","title":"Pretty: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award - By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective--the tropes, the presumptions--\u003ci\u003ePretty \u003c\/i\u003eis as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body,\" Brookins writes. \"Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I'm perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can't change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says 'female, ' and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean--to be a girl-turned-man when you're something else entirely?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInformed by KB Brookins's personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, \u003ci\u003ePretty \u003c\/i\u003eis concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency--whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as \"other\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kb Brookins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593537145","brand":"Ripon Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44147447365677,"sku":"9780593537145","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/0501\/1245\/files\/img_31a8fd88-165c-45c3-960b-fb714063431f.jpg?v=1757185521","url":"https:\/\/riponbookstore.com\/products\/pretty-a-memoir-9780593537145","provider":"Ripon Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}